Rep. Allen West fears ‘cultural suicide’

Rep. Allen West warned Monday that reports of the FBI’s training manual being edited to scrap portions considered offensive to the Muslim community signaled an increasingly “one-way street” level of tolerance that could lead to “cultural suicide.”

“We have to understand when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide and we should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy,” the Florida Republican said on “Fox & Friends.”

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West on edited training manuals

West noted that the report of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan — who has been accused of the fatal shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 and wounded dozens more — makes no reference to Islamic Jihadism or Muslim extremism, and also fails to mention the suspect’s alleged association with Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki.

“We are making our security situation so vanilla. If we continue to be recalcitrant in identifying who the enemy is, to be less offensive to them, we put ourselves in a bad situation,” West added. “You have an environment of political correctness which precludes these agents from doing their proper job and due diligence to go after the perceived threat.”

The Law Enforcement Examiner reported over the weekend that the FBI is editing its counterterrorism training program by removing references to Muslims and Arab-Americans that civil rights groups deemed offensive.

The FBI launched an investigation in September to review its training and reference materials related to religion or culture after several media outlets reported that some of the agency’s materials were offensive to the Muslim community.

Christopher Allen, a spokesman for the FBI, declined Monday to respond to West’s remarks on Fox News, but said in a statement that the agency “views the Muslim-American community as an essential partner in our efforts to stop terrorism.”

“In March 2012 the FBI completed its review, which found that the overwhelming majority of our counterterrorism training materials met the FBI’s standards,” Allen said. “Of the approximately 160,000 pages of training material reviewed, less than one percent contained factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes. To ensure that future training is accurate, professional, and consistent with the FBI’s core values, the FBI developed a guiding principles touchstone document to which all future training must adhere.”

Meanwhile, West’s recent quip about there being some 80 House Democrats who are members of the Communist Party has resulted in the cancelation of a local NAACP event in Florida, where the congressman was slated to be the keynote speaker.

“There’s a certain statement he made about Communists,” Jerry Gore, president of the NAACP’s Martin County chapter, told the TCPalm when asked why its annual fundraiser was canceled.

“That statement alone … we do not represent that type of atmosphere,” Gore added.

Readers' Comments (53)

West is correct, but he's far from the first to call attention to the nihilstic, suicidal streak that Westen Civilization has embraced. It Manifests itself nearly every day in the stark and obvious double standards and willful blindness that we cannot help but see.

Why West calling it out - as many have done before him - somehow makes it a story to Politico seems a bit curious.

allen west is an embarassment. he makes outlandish comments to gain headlines, then has to walk them back. if he were my representative i would work very hard to get rid of him. he is more interested in the front page than in leading by example.

The more Allen West talks the more damage he does to the Republican party.

Also I am fairly certain that the 'lets-tolerate-those-who-are-intolerant-of-us-and-would-opress-us-were-the-situation-reverse" strand of multiculturalism died years ago. Nobody argues that anymore, nobody. Its a far-right boogey-man.

Ever since the election of extreme radical demo-crats to positions of power in our government we have been growing weaker and weaker in defense of our culture. The national media is the enabler of the 32% who are oblivious to the risks to our country and its freedoms. Why? That is a questions that should be foremost in our thinking. Those that control information control the agenda and the implementation of that agenda. We are in grave danger of losing our individual freedoms in this country and the ironic thing about this attack on those freedoms is that the group(s) attacking are the first ones to take over the national media and end its freedoms (maybe it has already happened!).

Of course West is spot on. Just look at the dopy comments posted here by the left! They are the manifestation of the PC suicide being warned of. Take West's comments and put them in the mouth of the left's favorite political liberal and they would all be praising it. Hey lefties.. the truth is the truth.... stop making it dependent upon whose mouth you hear it from.

Gotta love it when West uses, at core, the same arguments that were used to justify Jim Crow in order to explain why we need to maintain "our" culture. Whatever "our" means, it's ridiculous to believe that it is some static thing that doesn't change over time. Guess what, we live in a pluralistic society. If you don't like it, move to Norway or some other racially or religiously homogenous country.

The black conservative, special target for hate by the left. Forget what he is actually saying, just attack the man because he is conservative... he should know better and convert to liberalism. The left's disdain for the truth is so obvious here. The left would rather take their chances with the PC invasion of radical islam than admit a conservative is right. Don't tell us that "radical islam" is a threat Mr West! Chill out and have a drink with us, smoke a joint, have some sex with a man or a woman (society is not ready for animals yet, but give us some time!)... visit the an abortion mill... come on and join us on our hell bent rants of mocking all things traditional and conservative.... I mean come on! radical islam a threat to America??/ Ha ha you must be high!

liberals make me laugh.. west has brought up good points and liberals call him a traitor for being ousted from the army.. heck, i would have done the same thing if it would have saved my troops, apparently you people never saw the movie rules of engagement..

on a side note, im more upset with this hasan crap.. workplace violence? he screamed allah akhbar and its workplace violence, i mean come on liberals, he had ties to islamic crazy people, hes not even convicted yet, but zimmerman gets out on bail and you should see twitter light up with death threats on not just him, but the judge as well.. you liberals are just freaking crazy..